Thutmosi I
Thutmosi I
XVIII dynasty 1550 – 1525 BC. At Amenofi’s I death, Thutmosi I ascended to the throne. Who was he? What allowed him to become Amenhotep’s successor? We don’t know. Actually we don’t know anything about this man, except his mother’s name. A woman called Sensenab og whom we don’t have the title nor the station. And we don’t even have details about his queen, Ahmose. She wasn’t a princess, contrary to what many experts have believed in the past years Her only titles are “king’s wife” and “King’s sister”. As we can deduce from the remarkable proofs we have, the world “sister” could mean “a close relative or could indicate the wife”, so we don’t know if the two consorts were blood-related or if it was simply a repeat of the previous title. (Maybe it had a different meaning that with the information we have, we aren’t able to understand). We know with no doubt that the couple had two daughters: Hatshepsut and her sister Neferubity. Besides, the king had two sons, Wadjmose and Amenmose, probably born both from a secondary wife, the queen Matnofret. Both sons prematurely died before their father.Thutmosi enlarged Amon’s temple in Karnak, building piers, courtyards and statues. He guided a compaign in Nubia where he reached the third Cataract. He defeated the Nubian chied himself and returned in the capital with his enemiesbody hung at the bow of his boat. Anyway his greatest battles were in Minor Asia, where he remarkably enlarged the borders of the reign, reaching the banks of the Eufrate river, as one of his steles mentions, which was made for the occasion. Although we don’t exactly know the length of his reign, he must have died in advance age. His mummy was found, with many other ones, in the hiding place of the royal mummies in Deir el Bahari. It must be mentioned, though that the archaeologists have many doubts that this mummy is Thutmosi’s I one.
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